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Members of Issue No. 52 BIRDS -1, -2, -3, (21 May 2020) and -4, on 29 Nov 2018 in front of the lab building Edited by: G. Maeda Laboratory of Spacecraft Environment Interaction Engineering (LaSEINE), Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) Kitakyushu, Japan Archive website: http://birds1.birds-project.com/newsletter.html Space All back issues are archived at this website. Engineering Acknowledgment of support: This newsletter is supported, in part, by International JSPS Core-to-Core Program, Course B. Asia-Africa Science Platforms.BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 1 of 145 All back issues of this newsletter can be easily downloaded. Go to here: http://birds1.birds-project.com/newsletter.html and scroll down to the desired issue.

Table of Sections The Guest Box 1. Kyutech is still Number One (academic operator of small satellites) 2. LaSEINE Laboratory Kick Off for the new 2020 academic year 3. Small satellite industry seeks stimulus as pandemic hits commercial investment 4. OneWeb files for bankruptcy 5. Space firms innovate solutions for the coronavirus pandemic 6. Kyutech introduces new course on advanced space robotics 7. How to study in Japan on a MEXT Japan government scholarship 8. Scholarships are also offered by JICA for study in Japan 9. Congratulations to Guatemala for its first satellite in space! 10. ISU offers this summer an online course; applications due before 31 May 11. New addition to SEIC YouTube Channel: Easy to make sweet-chilli shrimp 12. New addition to SEIC YouYube Channel: Home-made French Toast 13. JAXA video: Japanese space food #visitzimbabwe Source 14. Report from Mongolia https://www.zimbabwetourism.net/listing/victoria-falls/ 15. Report from Nepal 16. Report from Honduras Victoria Falls: 17. Report from Uganda One of the World’s Seven Wonders Continued on the next page See explanation on the next page.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 2 of 145 Table of Sections (cont’d from the previous page) Explanation of The Guest Box 18. Olayinka's World – Column #16 (report from Nigeria) Victoria Falls, known as the “Smoke that 19. Space4Youth Competition 2020 thunders” in the local Tonga language, is the 20. BIRDS-4: Ground station software decoder largest single curtain of falling water in the 21. BIRDS-4: How to live in quarantine here at Kyutech world and 70% of the exquisite views are 22. BIRDS-4: Effectiveness of video-conferencing during the pandemic seen from the Zimbabwe rain forest. Victoria 23. BIRDS-4: My travel back to Nepal (Hari) Falls stretches for 1,708 metres, reaching 108 24. BIRDS-4: Remote classes metres in height. 25. BIRDS-4: NASA space apps, COVID-19 challenge 26. Report from Paraguay The rain forest which has constant rain 24/7 27. Report from Zimbabwe from the never ending spray of the Falls, has 28. Column #5 from Malaysia unique ecosystem. It is a botanists dream and 29. Report from the Philippines bird lovers’ paradise. There are species here 30. GST (Gnd Station Report) report from Malaysia that don’t occur anywhere else, and our 31. Introducing Dr. J. A. Ofosu – new member of the staff of LaSEINE recommendation is to look just a little 32. BIRDS-3: ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control System) mission beyond the pathway and the numerous 33. BIRDS-3: Satellite operation report from Taiwan viewpoints. One of the beauties is that the 34. BIRDS-3: Outreach during quarantine area has not become over commercialized. 35. BIRDS-3: Home cooking in Sri Lanka 36. Momentus to launch IRIS-A satellite of Taiwan From:  Timothy 37. Futaba student CubeSat project concludes fund-raising phase  Victor End of Table  Ramson of BIRDS-5 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 3 of 145 JSPS Reminder When you publish a paper on a topic related to BIRDS, please include this JSPS provides the acknowledgement in the paper: airfare funds of BIRDS Int’l Workshops and This work was supported by JSPS Core-to-Core for Ground Station Program, B. Asia-Africa Science Platforms. Workshops.

It would help us a lot.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 4 of 145 01. Kyutech is still Number One (academic operator of small satellites)

BRYCE SPACE & TECHNOLOGY https://brycetech.com/reports "Smallsats by the Numbers 2020“ Nearly 190 academic operators Page 28 launched smallsats 2012-2019 February, 2020

In a crowded race Kyutech is still No. 1

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 5 of 145 02. LaSEINE Laboratory Kick Off for the new 2020 academic year On Monday, 27 April 2020, at 10:30 AM, LaSEINE (the combined labs of Professors Cho, Toyoda, and Iwata) conducted its “Lab Kick Off” to mark the start of the new academic year in Japan. It was done via Zoom, with about 60 persons involved. Each new person (staff and students) did a self intro. This was followed by Prof Cho laying out all the basic rules of the Lab. Normally there is a barbeque in the evening but this has been postponed to when circumstances are more favorable for public gatherings.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 6 of 145 03. Small satellite industry seeks stimulus as pandemic hits commercial investment

The SmallSat Alliance is calling on the Pentagon and the intelligence community to add hundreds of millions of dollars to satellite programs.

WASHINGTON — A space industry group is calling on the Pentagon and Congress to increase investments in small satellite programs to shore up companies hit hard by the pandemic. The crisis is “making our companies particularly vulnerable to bankruptcy or foreign takeover,” the SmallSat Alliance said in a white paper April 21. “The COVID-19 crisis is creating new, profound market challenges,” the group said.

The SmallSat Alliance represents about 45 companies including satellite operators, The small satellite industry is asking for greater government investments manufacturers, component suppliers, launch providers, ground network operators and to help suppliers weather the coronavirus crisis. Credit: Exolaunch data analytics providers.

The group’s white paper calls on the Pentagon and the intelligence community to add hundreds of millions of dollars to satellite programs. The investments would be to develop “hybrid space architectures” that combine commercial smallsats with traditional government satellites, Steve Nixon, president of the SmallSat alliance, told SpaceNews. The Pentagon has been studying options to deploy hybrid architectures — as a way to make constellations less costly to build and more resilient to attacks — but has been slow to bring them to fruition. The SmallSat Alliance argues that the government should now step up those efforts . . . . FOR THE REST SEE THE LINK BELOW https://spacenews.com/small-satellite-industry-seeks-stimulus-as-pandemic-hits-commercial-investment/

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 7 of 145 04. OneWeb files for bankruptcy “OneWeb and Sky & Space Global are some of the companies that considered the use of nanosatellites to provide global connectivity. In Sadly, March, OneWeb filed for bankruptcy, and earlier this month, Sky & Space Global entered voluntary OneWeb administration, both largely due to their inability went belly to raise further investment. Both companies wanted to power global communications by a up constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites while providing connectivity to people and businesses OneWeb satellite (from OneWeb) everywhere around the world. In achieving this, OneWeb raised about USD 3.4 billion while Sky & Space raised about USD 60 million (early investment from angel investors, VCs, and IPO) out of the USD 160 million needed for their constellation. It was a great promise for improving connectivity in Africa, which explains why Africa was one of their leading markets. “ SEE THE LINK BELOW FOR THE REST https://africanews.space/oneweb-and-sky-space-failure-the-effect-on-satellite-broadband-connectivity-in-africa/

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 8 of 145 05. Space firms innovate solutions for the coronavirus pandemic

While production of rockets and satellites continues across much of the space industry amid the coronavirus pandemic, engineers at several space companies — including SpaceX, Virgin Orbit and Blue Origin — have started working on medical devices and protective equipment in response to shortages in hospitals across the United States.

Virgin Orbit has designed a simplified ventilator at its rocket factory in Long Beach, California, while SpaceX has agreed to supply valves for ventilators produced by the medical supply company Medtronic. A “bridge ventilator” designed by Virgin Orbit. The launch firm said it contacted California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose office connected Virgin Orbit with Credit: Virgin Orbit the California Emergency Medical Services Authority . . . . FOR THE REST SEE THE LINK BELOW

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/07/space-companies-rally-to-supply-medical-equipment-amid-pandemic/

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 9 of 145 06. Kyutech introduces new course on advanced space robotics

(SEIC students)

Class topics are listed on the next page

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 10 of 145 Some examples of space robotics – now and in the future

http://robotglobe.org/mda-to-extend-support-of-the-canadian-robotics-on- the-international-space-station/

ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY FOR IN-SPACE ASSEMBLY Half-day Workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Montréal, Quebec, Canada Thursday, May 23, 2019 http://hq.wvrtc.com/icra2019/index.shtml END OF THIS SECTION

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 11 of 145 07. How to study in Japan on a MEXT Japan government scholarship

If you are a young person outside of Japan and you are looking for ways to study in Japan with a MEXT scholarship, then this 9-min. video is for you. Also, consult your local Japan embassy for detailed local https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxFVn4YElmc requirements.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 12 of 145 08. Scholarships are also offered by JICA for study in Japan

The following (02 May 2020) is from: http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/admissions/jica-scholarships/ Information on this opportunity will be shared SDGs Global Leaders Course through the workplaces of eligible applicants, and applicants must apply through their workplace to JICA's SDGs Global Leaders Course is a program for JICA first before completing the university admissions government employees, university professors, etc... from procedures described below (the application the countries of ASEAN, Oceania, South, East, and Central deadline for this is usually late-September of the year Asia, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The goal of prior to enrollment). For further details on this the program is to raise the potential leaders of the future, opportunity, please inquire at your workplace and to develop their capacity to assist their countries in and/or contact your local JICA branch office directly. meeting their Sustainable Development Goals by allowing Information can also be found on JICA's webpage by participants to earn either a Master's or Doctoral degree navigating to the individual homepage for your at a high level Japanese university. country from the link below.

JICA Countries and Regions Homepage: https://www.jica.go.jp/english/countries/index.html

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 13 of 145 09. Congratulations to Guatemala for its first satellite in space!

Guatemala’s first satellite (part of JAXA’s KiboCUBE program) was successfully deployed by JAXA’s deployment facility aboard the ISS on 29 April 2020. See the next page for JAXA’s press release about this The Twitter link: https://twitter.com/quetzal1_uvg historic event.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 14 of 145 Deployed from the ISS On April 29th, 2020 (Japan time), the CubeSat developed by a team from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala was successfully deployed from the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” of the International Space Station. This CubeSat, named “Quetzal-1” was selected as the winner of the Second Round of KiboCUBE programme. The live streaming of the deployment was broadcasted online, and See the full many people in Guatemala watched the successful deployment of their first national satellite through live streaming. press release Quetzal-1 was developed as Guatemala’s first satellite, and the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala will operate the CubeSat after its deployment from “Kibo.” The by JAXA knowledges earned from the observation data of Quetzal-1 will be applied in https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2 Guatemala’s future remote sensing technology. SEE THE LINK FOR THE REST 020/04/20200430-1_e.html

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 15 of 145 You can view its telemetry data via the link below

THE DASHBOARD: https://dashboard.satnogs.org/d/js5kQceWz/quetzal-1-telemetry?orgId=1&refresh=1m BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 16 of 145 10. ISU offers this summer an online course; applications due before 31 May

FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION: https://www.isunet.edu/interactive-space-program/ BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 17 of 145 11. New addition to SEIC YouTube Channel: Easy to make sweet-chilli shrimp

New Video Addition: SEIC YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_XUgaOV30kyk59WYJeBBWg

Mark of BIRDS-4

 Garlic

This new cooking video was In progress…. Shrimp Butter produced by Mark (BIRDS-4, Philippines) as a suggestion to SEIC students for cooking at home during times of home quarantine.

Sweet-Chilli Shrimp (uploaded 01 May 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGpGYYbCthg&feature=youtu.be Final product [Length: 8.5 minutes] BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 18 of 145 12. New addition to SEIC YouTube Channel: Home-made French Toast Also by Mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr6k0ieURrw&feature=youtu.be

Slice and enjoy

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 19 of 145 13. JAXA video: Japanese space food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHtH1-5u1A

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 20 of 145 14. Report from Mongolia Review of recent space activities in Mongolia

by Tuguldur Ulambayar 10 May 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 21 of 145 Mongolian Space Technology Association

“Nanosatellite – New Possibility” business meeting

2019-06-04 The Mongolian team has announced the launch of its next satellite project, which named Temuulel, on the 2nd anniversary of the launch of the MAZAALAI satellite. Moreover, the results of the Mazaalai satellite project and Prof. Tsolmon further opportunities for satellite development, cooperation, Prof. Ulam-Orgikh and business proposals are also discussed on this meeting.

Logo of the “Temuulel Project”

Temuulel satellite development team

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 22 of 145 Mongolian Space Technology Association

Dr.Erdenebaatar Dr.Amartuvshin

Dr.Turtogtokh Dr.Erdenebaatar (Erka), Dr. Turtogtokh (Turo ) Dr.Amartuvshin (they were all former Kyutech students) presented the Mazaalai satellite project, Space technology and Temuulel satellite project .

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 23 of 145 Mongolian Space Technology Association

2019-10-04 The MOSTA was officially inaugurated and became more active. (Originally, MoSTA was ebtablished at Kyutech in 2017) Head of the MoSTA organization Dr. Erdenebaatar

Gurragchaa Jugderdemid (He is the Mongolian first astronaut who launched into space in 1981.) Contact information: http://mosta.mn https://www.facebook.com/Mongolian.Space.Technology/ https://www.instagram.com/mongolian_space_tech/

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 24 of 145 Certified training with JAMMS

National University of Mongolia, “Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation” (JAMSS), and Kyushu Institute of Technology jointly organized the “SPACE SYSTEMS DEFINITION, DESIGN, OPERATION”

In this training, wide range of knowledge which related to space technology is provided. For example space technology’s importance for our lives, how to define the system for the needs of people through satellite and satellite technology, how to develop satellite, how to do satellite tests, and how we use the downloaded satellites information from space for our daily life.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 25 of 145 Certified training with JAMMS

Lecture topics

Lecturer Training topics:

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 26 of 145 Certified training with JAMMS

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 27 of 145 Certified training with JAMMS

Training participants: 35 qualified persons from

 NUM’s students who are working on “Temuulel” satellite project  Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics  Institute of Geography and Geoecology  Mongolian University of Science and Technology  Mongolian National Defense University  Mongolian Meteorological Agency  “Mongol Koosen” Technological College  “New Mongol” Technology and Engineering College  National Emergency Management Agency  Information and Research Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 28 of 145 Dr. Kateryna Ahieva (Axelspace Corporation and former Kyutech student) handed the certificate for successful graduates

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 29 of 145 Temuulel – Preliminary Design Review 2019-DEC-24

MoSTA’s Head of ADCS IHS Mission

ReDaCo mission Structure OBC

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 30 of 145 Temuulel – Preliminary Design Review 2019-12-24 After the PDR

EPS

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 31 of 145 “CanSat” national competition

2020-01-15 An orientation training was organized for the 5th CANSAT national competition, which aims to provide space technology knowledge and education through a real project under the motto “Let's challenge ourselves”. In addition to 12 teams from 9 domestic universities, 15 teams from 3 amateur clubs are participating in the Fifth National Competition.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 32 of 145 “CanSat” orientation training 2020-01-15 Final competition will be organized in the summer

In total, 24 teams registered for the competition.

Participating universities and teams

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 33 of 145 CanSat orientation training

2020-01-24 E.Usukhbayar, a master's student at Beihang University in China, gave a training to the participants of the CanSat 2020 competition to guide them on the features, tasks, CanSat structure and his personal experience of the previous CanSat competitions .

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 34 of 145 BIRDS-3 Uplink Competition

The Mazaalai Satellite and NUM ground station, located at the National University of Mongolia, successfully participated in the BIRDS 3 project satellite uplink command competition organized by the Kyushu Institute of Technology for the BIRDS Ground Station Network. Currently, the BIRDS project station network includes Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Japan, Paraguay, Bhutan, Nepal, and Costa Rica.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 35 of 145 Public Astronomy 10-15 June 2019 National University of Mongolia and Mongolian team organized the workshop named “Teacher Training Outreach for Astronomy and Science in Mongolia” The training workshop creates a platform for professional astronomers, space scientists, and educators to meet and share teaching materials, research methodologies, experiences and learning in the framework of astronomy and science teaching. This training workshop allows school teachers to learn and improve their universe awareness knowledge experience how other nations preserve the astronomical heritage and solve light pollution in order to observe stars and universe. International communities will involve in this activity to achieve our goals. This training workshop will promote lifelong learning opportunities for school teachers and contribute to the development of science technology and astronomy education in Mongolia and neighboring countries.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 36 of 145 Public Astronomy

There were many experts in public astronomy field invited from around the world

Professor Tsolmon – Head of Space Science and Remote Sensing Laboratory – gave the opening speech

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 37 of 145 Public Astronomy

“IAU Women and Girls in Astronomy Day” 2019 in Mongolia

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 38 of 145 Public Astronomy

Summer camp for school children for “ Space science and natural heritage” in August 10-15, 2019 in Arkhangai Province, Mongolia

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 39 of 145 Mobile planetarium Public Astronomy

Mobile Planetarium for primary school students

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 40 of 145 Public Astronomy Young amateur astronomers expressed interest in IAU100

END OF REPORT FROM MONGOLIA

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 41 of 145 15. Report from Nepal NepaliSAT-1 and its Ground Station: In brief

Riwaj Shrestha Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia, USA Photo Curtesy: https://birds3.birds-project.com/ Intern Researcher in NAST, Nepal in 2019

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 42 of 145 Working with the data…

Who is a Riwaj SHRESTHA? Introduction: Riwaj Shrestha is a Nepalese who is currently doing his bachelor degree in engineering course in Washington and Lee University in USA. When he came back home in summer vacation in Nepal last year in 2019 he applied the short term internship application and he had got Intern in the Faculty of Technology, NAST. During that time he worked at the NAST ground station work with team .He helped the team and learned about the installation and calibration process of the antenna and radio system of Ground Station of BIRDS-3 Nanosatellite. He prepared the Report for NAST as well as for KyuTech to his about the Ground station of NAST. -Hari Ram Shrestha. BIRDS-3; 10 May 2020

Riwaj Shrestha

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 43 of 145 BIRDS 3 is the carrier satellite that transports the NEPALISAT-1 to the International Space station, from where it is deployed into Earth’s orbit.

Birds -3 Photo Curtesy: https://birds3.birds-project.com/

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 44 of 145 Ground station

Photo Curtesy: https://birds3.birds-project.com/

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 45 of 145 Er.Roshan Pandy During NAST GS setup time: Roshan Pandey & Riwaj Shrestha in NAST

Rotator & Radio Setup

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 46 of 145 Lets take the Ultra high frequency Antenna, Frequency(f)= 437 MHz (437 X 10^6) 푣 = 퐹휆 퐹휆 = 푣 푣 휆 = 퐹 3 푋 10^8 휆 = 437 X 10^6 휆 =0.687m 휆 Length of antenna= 2 Length of antenna = 34.4 cm (driver antenna) BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 47 of 145 Cw skimmer/Software

THE END OF REPORT FROM NEPAL

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 48 of 145 16. Report from Honduras Mr. Reynel Josué Galindo is a new member of SEIC.

Due to COVID-19, he is still stuck in his home country, the Honduras. However, in time, he will get to Kyutech and join us as the newest student member of SEIC.

In the first "Report from the Honduras", he introduces himself, his university, its space efforts, and his country. Reynel’s university and his flag -- The Editor, 12 May 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 49 of 145 Self Introduction

My name is Reynel Josué Galindo, and I obtained both a Bachelor in Industrial Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor in Industrial Mechanical Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). I have worked on different design projects such as an adaptive security system for conventional lathes, a cold storage cryptocurrency wallet and SCADA systems for steel products manufacturing processes.

I was recently given the opportunity to be part of Project Morazan in the near future and since then I decided to focus my career on space engineering. For this, I started my Master’s degree on Kyutech this year as part of this project and I am very excited for what is to come.

Honduras is a country where this field of study has not yet been developed, and I want to partake on changing this fact by managing space faring projects in the future. 10 May 2020.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 50 of 145 REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS

City of Tegucigalpa, at Night. General Information Honduras has a Population: 9.5 million beautiful contrast of Area: 112,492 km2 Official Language: industrialized cities and Honduras is a Central American Spanish country with Caribbean Sea many different natural Capital: Tegucigalpa coastlines to the north and the landscapes. Pacific Ocean to the south.

Aside from Honduras beautiful beaches, there are a lot of natural In the tropical rainforest near In the Caribbean Sea are the Bay Islands, a diving destination tourist destinations inside the Guatemala, the ancient Mayan that's part of the 1,000km-long Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. country, such as mountains and ceremonial site Copán has rivers with magnificent stone-carved hieroglyphics and landscapes. stelae, tall stone monuments. BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 51 of 145 The National Autonomous University of Honduras is the national public university of Honduras. Founded in 1847, it has over 140 programs from the Bachelor's level to the Doctorate, and is the largest and highest ranked University in Honduras. The university is completely autonomous and is self-governed, having 6% of Honduras National Budget in its favor.

University City, UNAH’s main campus located in Tegucigalpa seen from above.

UNAH has around 90,000 students enrolled each semester. UNAH's university city is home to a sports complex named “Palacio Universitario”, which has the 7,500 seat “Estadio Olímpico José Trinidad Reyes”, opened to the public in 2014.The university has 40 teams, including basketball, volleyball, soccer, and futsal. Located in the university city is also the Central American Astronomy Observatory of Suyapa (OACS/UNAH), which uses a 42 cm Meade telescope. www.faces.unah.edu.hn

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 52 of 145 Project Morazán

Morazán is a project for integration of the Central American Nations through collaboration in Space. The project consists in developing a CubeSat by Honduras professionals, with the collaboration of Costa Rica professionals’ developers of the first Central America Satellite and Guatemala professionals’ winners of Kibo Cube 2nd call. As Central America is a region with high exposure to natural disasters and with territories ranked among the highest risk in the world, the satellite’s scientific mission will be the development of early warning system for floods and landslides,which can operate in remote zones Mission Concept with little to no access to communications, and additionally the use of the same system for post emergency communications will be tested. The satellite will test the use of packet radio communications protocol for both the monitoring of environmental variables and the communications for emergency response. [1]

[1] Monge, Luis & Briceño, Alvarado & Molina, Maria & Zorto, Fernando & Gross, Eduardo & Mejuto, Javier & Hernández, Víctor & Becker, Mr. (2019). MORAZÁN MRZ-SAT CUBESAT PROJECT FOR INTEGRATION OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN NATIONS TROUGH COLLABORATION IN SPACE.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 53 of 145 THE END OF REPORT FROM HONDURAS BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 54 of 145 17. Report from Uganda

The following is a report from Uganda.

It was received on 12 May 2020. It was written by the Ugandan Team of the BIRDS-5 Project. They are:  BONNY OMARA  EDGAR MUJUNI  DERRICK TEBUSWEKE

You can read their self-intros on pages 31-42 of BIRDS Project Newsletter Issue No. 50.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 55 of 145 Covid 19 Situation In Uganda

Uganda registered its first case of COVID-19 on 21 March 2020 and, as of 11 May, had registered 121 cases. The initial cases were mostly imported by Ugandans coming back home.

The country has for days not identified new cases of the disease from the community, and its most cases are the truck drivers transiting through the country from the East African regional countries. A total of 57 cases are from Truck drivers, constituting 47% of the total cases registered.

Out of the 121 confirmed cases, recoveries are at 55, with Zero deaths. Samples tested for the disease now stand at 58,606, with 657 still under institutional quarantine.

Fig. 1: COVID-19 status in Uganda as of 11/MAY/2020.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 56 of 145 On right, trucks being disinfected.

Timeline;

On 18 March, public gatherings including places of worship, pubs, weddings, music shows, rallies and cultural meetings were suspended for 32 days with immediate effect. Foreigners and Ugandans arriving in the country were put under 14-day mandatory quarantine in hotels designated by the government.

The first confirmed case was a 36-year-old male who had travelled to Dubai on 17 March 2020 for a business trip. On returning to Uganda on 21 March 2020 at around 2 am aboard Ethiopian Airlines, his temperature was said to be at 38.7 during the screening process at Entebbe Airport which prompted the health team to isolate him at the airport for further follow up.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 57 of 145 On 24th March, all schools and universities were closed for 30 days. On 25 March, public transport was suspended for 14 days. Only private cars with not more than three occupants are allowed on the road.

On 26 March, police and other security personnel were heavily deployed in all city suburbs, slums and along the streets to enforce the president's directives. On 30 March, the President declared a nationwide curfew from 7 pm to 6:30 am, which would run for 14 days to prevent the spread of the disease.

Fig. 2: Left, Police officer performs a thorough inspection in order to avoid unnecessary outing.

On right, majority of Ugandans turned to bicycles after stopping of public transport.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 58 of 145 On 18 March, President Yoweri Museveni banned all incoming and outgoing travel to specified highly affected countries for a period of 32 days. The president extended the lock down period for another 21 days on top of the 14 days. This lock down period continued from April 15 and will run up to May 05, later on the president extended the lockdown for more 14 days till 20th May, while relaxing on some restrictions and opening hardware shops.

Fig. 3: Deserted streets of Kampala City

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 59 of 145 Government stopped commercial flights on March 22 and allowed cargo flights to continue as part of the emergency measures to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

Fig.4: On left, the airport being disinfected.

On right; Parts of the City being disinfected by Ministry of Health officials.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 60 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 61 of 145 On April, 4th, Uganda started relief food distribution to about 1.5 million urban poor people who are affected by the lockdown as a measure to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

Fig. 6: Left, Prime Minister flags off trucks to deliver food relief items to the urban poor.

On right: Security Minister with the relief items.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 62 of 145 On April 9th, The president banned all outdoor workouts as the latest measure to enforce social distancing . The directive came after videos of people jogging and doing aerobics in groups in the capital, Kampala, were shared on social media. He urged the public to exercise from their homes, with a short video of himself demonstrating how to use an Office space or a living room for exercises.

Fig. 5: Showing The President jogging and exercising from his office to encourage people be fit while at home

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 63 of 145 The Covid 19 pandemic also enabled Ugandan scientists to come up with innovations that would help the country win the battle against the virus. For example; A team of Makerere University researchers and engineers from Kiira Motors Corporation successfully completed engineering tests on an affordable ventilator prototype on 22nd of April. And on 18th April, The Uganda Army launched a mobile fully equipped hospital to treat Covid 19 patients.

Fig. 6: On left, A cheaper ventilator developed by Uganda scientists.

Right: A mobile hospital launched by the Uganda Army to treat Covid 19 patients.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 64 of 145 Relaxation of restrictions

On May 4th, The President started relaxing some restrictions as cases from the community dropped and below were some of the new guidelines; • Face Mask is mandatory whenever in public. • Airports and borders stay closed. • Wholesale shops to open. • Car garages to open. • Restaurants to open but only for takeaways.

The situation is being monitored for the next 14 days till 20th May, upon which more relaxations are expected to be announced basing on scientific Advice and status of community cases.

Lastly, We hope and pray that this pandemic ends soon so that we can fully join the BIRDS 5 Project. For the time being, please stay home and stay safe. Let us together flatten the curve by staying home, washing hands and restricting movements. THE END OF REPORT FROM UGANDA

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 65 of 145 OLAYINKA’S WORLD 18. Olayinka's World – Column #16 COLUMN NO 16 OLAYINKA FAGBEMIRO NATIONAL SPACE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AGENCY(NASRDA), ABUJA. NIGERIA ASST. CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER, HEAD, SPACE EDUCATION UNIT

COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN NIGERIA It is no longer news that Covid-19 pandemic has wrecked and is still wrecking so much havoc globally. The outbreak of the coronavirus which started from Wuhan, China, late 2019 has since become a pandemic, with over 3million infections globally causing over 250,000 deaths already.

Nigeria is no exception, as the country recorded her index case, February 28th, 2020. Even though the government worked so hard to contain the spread as well as keep the figures as low as possible, this was only possible during the first 2 months as the figures soon spiked, causing the government to impose a total lockdown in 2 major states and the Federal Capital Territory for 5 weeks even as people are encouraged to maintain social distancing and increase hygiene.

The lockdown, which brought upon untold hardship on the citizens was soon relaxed as people protested unprecedented losses in their sources of livelihood due to the fact that a huge percentage of Nigerians work in the informal sector of the economy. The palliatives provided by the government nonetheless, the outcry against the lockdown went unabated forcing a review of the imposed lockdown on the 4th of May, 2020 when the total lockdown was eased. BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 66 of 145 The country has since witnessed a spike in infection rates and the number of deaths has since gone up from under 50 to almost 120 a week into the ease on the lockdown. The Covid-19 Pandemic is biting the hardest in the rural parts of Nigeria. Majority of these people are feeling the pangs of hunger and poverty at these very strange times because of the lockdown imposed by government, preventing them from accessing their means of daily livelihoods.

Most of these communities do not have access to constant water supply to be able to sustain and adhere to the health advice of frequent hand washing. Sadly, their major concern at this time, is to beat hunger and stay alive even as they hope the Covid-19 pandemic somehow spares them. The palliatives provided by the government and other donors have not really eased the hunger as such because of the huge number of people who are living below the poverty line in Nigeria.

There is a very low rate of awareness on social and physical distancing as being a major means of preventing community transmission of the Coronavirus. Nigeria now has over 3000 cases of infection, even as health and government authorities decry the danger of community spreading of the virus. The rates of new infections, since the first cases of community transmission was announced has been unprecedented.

The government has since eased the lockdown and the economy is being opened up gradually even as schools remain shut indefinitely and the ban on interstate travel remains in place. As the whole world grapple with the devastating impact of the covid-19 pandemic, while eagerly awaiting a quick intervention either in the form of a potent drug for managing Covid-19 or a vaccine, one thing is obvious, a lot of these disruptions are here to stay.

Received 12 May 2020 by the editor. END OF REPORT FROM NIGERIA

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 67 of 145 19. Space4Youth Competition 2020

CONTINUED NEXT PAGE

SEE: https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/space4youth/competition/2020/index.html

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 68 of 145 SEE: https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/space4youth/competition/2020/index.html

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 69 of 145 BIRDS-4 Reports are on the following pages

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 70 of 145 20. BIRDS-4: Ground station software decoder

BIRDS-4 Ground Station Software Decoder Timothy Ivan Leong May 7, 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 71 of 145 BIRDS-4 Ground Station Software Decoder

In March issue, I presented the ground station software and how to handle it. This month, I want to talk about the additional program that have been created alongside the ground station software. This program will allow us to decode the data -that the ground station receives- into a readable format for the user. By selecting the hex data the ground station receives, the program can automatically recognize the mission that it needs to decode, then save the decoded data as an excel file. For example, for the PSC mission (kindly refer to BIRDS-4’s March 2019 Selecting the packet to decode article for more detailed information), the program The program doesn’t will decode the data into voltage and current have a user interface right values. now and is just run through a console interface. However, The excel files can be created if there were no the selection of the file and previous existing data or the data can just be added the folder selection for saving Decoded data saved to an existing excel file. as CSV the decoded data is done (« , » are actually through windows folder « . » this is the interface so it is quite easy to French format of use. presenting numbers) BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 72 of 145 21. BIRDS-4: How to live in quarantine here at Kyutech How to Live in Quarantine

Yasir M. O. ABBAS May 7, 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 73 of 145 How to Live in Quarantine Written By: Yasir ABBAS Due to the COVID-19 accelerated situation, Fukuoka and other Japanese prefectures announced a state of emergency since April 7, 2020. It is not the same as the state of emergency in the rest of the world. For example, in my country -Sudan- a total lockdown is declared. People are not allowed to go further than the nearby supermarket unless they have permission. Try cooking traditional food recipes Nearby central park to visit while protecting the social distance Whether you are in a lockdown or quarantining yourself at home there are plenty of stuff you can do to survive this tough time, you can even turn it to an enjoyable and useful period. While staying at home, try finishing the postponed activities resting for months and maybe years in your ‘to-do list’. If you have a good internet connection at home, use it wisely, and be creative. Make ‘online visits’ to be socially connected. Keep advancing your personal and career lives through online courses. Learn something new. Quarantine is an opportunity to get rid of fast food. Eat and cook healthy food. Also, don’t forget to do sport in the nearby park. You can as well carry out indoor exercises. More time with family members Moreover, find new hobbies, read books and enjoy this free unplanned vacation time. BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 74 of 145 22. BIRDS-4: Effectiveness of video-conferencing during the pandemic Effectiveness of Video- conferencing During the Pandemic

Hoda El-Megharbel May 7, 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 75 of 145 Effectiveness of Video-conferencing during pandemics Written By: Hoda Awny El-Megharbel The global spread of COVID-19 is Moreover, using this technology has pushing towards innovative solutions to saved lots of money and time usually keep up regular business, education and spent to gather different parties in an in- other activities to take place after closing person meeting. off many premises and employees Although video conferencing could provide an efficient way to gather staff choosing to work from home to avoid ©https://verbit.ai/ ©techrepublic.com contact with others and further spread of quickly to discuss time-sensitive situations, it is important to maintain a the virus. Video-conferencing is one of Even though video-conferencing has strong Internet connection to avoid the best solutions that help employees to some advantages, also some challenges connect remotely and effectively. Using exist. cutting calls which might not be professional. In addition to considering this technology as the most reliable Among the advantages of using different different time zones for international alternative to a face-to-face interaction; available platforms are the features events. In KyuTech, we are following enabling idea-sharing during meetings available within these platforms such as the global trend in using this even though members are not in the same keeping records, generating transcripts place. This approach in running a and providing timestamps to live technology to conduct meetings and projects discussions including our business or connecting people will have a meetings to enhance the communication laboratory kick-off which took place in long-lasting impact even after the process and to ensure important points April, gathering staff and students situation changes and it's safe to return to are not missed out. workspaces. virtually from their homes.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 76 of 145 23. BIRDS-4: My travel back to Nepal (Hari)

My Travel Back to Nepal

Hari Ram Shrestha May 8, 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 77 of 145 Back to Nepal: My Travel Experience Written By: Hari Ram SHRESTHA After 15 months of staying in Japan, In Nepal, long distance travel from Prof. Cho allowed me to visit my home one place to another is only possible by in Nepal for a month starting from road or airways. Because Nepal is a January 14. I was very excited to meet landlocked country sea travel is not my family, especially since my little son possible while train service is not as Japan Nepal celebrated his 2nd birthday. Moreover, extensive as Japan. my sister -in -law had her wedding Nowadays, I am thinking of why my Image Source: Flags(sunshinesmile),Lasor Travel (Left) U.S.Embassy ceremony, which I was able to attend. country is not developing?? I hope our Nepal (right) I travelled alone. I got to experience political leaders would learn something a new route and sights via Japan's from Japan and implement it in Nepal. transportation system. I believe in coming days my country’s If you want to travel inside Japan youth leader will correct the current you have different kind of options to use administration system. transportation system like by road, by The most interesting part of this airways, by sea route. journey for me was during my Ferry trip Cherry blossom in Osaka, Japan and Jacaranda Flower in For me, the experience was good from Shin Mojiko, Kitakyushu to Kathmandu, Nepal because I gained some new ideas about Nanko Port, Osaka. On the other hand, I the Ferry service and Metro train system could not sleep well the whole night of Japan. because of the ferry's vibration during the course. I also felt sea sickness that time since it was my first time travelling by ferry. BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 78 of 145 Kitakyushu to Osaka Travel Written By: Hari Ram Shrestha Thanks to Pooja, I was able to reserve a the ticket for this City Line Ferry. Dinner and breakfast were available inside the restaurant but you can also enjoy your own food there.

Dinner @ Ferry Price: 1600 JPY Kokura Station

• Bus is free from Kokura to Shin Moji. • Pick up point in front of is north gate of JR Kokura Station • The bus time: If you want to go Osaka by Ferry please From Kokura station, Moving the 1st bus time is you can check more information from nd 15:40 and the 2 bus time is 18:40 the website below: Inside the Ferry https://www.cityline.co.jp/english/.

Reservation confirmed Bus station Price: 5390 JPY for Tourist cabin

Journey Travel starting BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 79 of 145 From Osaka to Kathmandu, Nepal Written By: Hari Ram Shrestha Train route and schedule to Kansai

Kansai International Airport Japan has a direct flight to Nepal Kansai International Airport

Sakai Station

Being new to the place, I got confused in following the train schedules. Considering that I was carrying a heavy bag, I actually felt nervous at the same time. Thankfully, I reached Kansai International Airport in Osaka in time for my flight. I felt relieved. Nepal’s Nation Flag airlines https://www.nepalairlines.com.np/home Waiting for train for direct transfer to the Kansai Int. Airport BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 80 of 145 24. BIRDS-4: Remote classes

Simultaneous Connection Test for the Remote Classes

Daisuke Nakayama April 30, 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 81 of 145 Simultaneous Connection Test for the Remote Classes Written By: Daisuke Nakayama Kyutech is under lock-down due to It actually set a record for the the state emergency declaration. highest number of tweets sent in a University stopped physical classes and single second with 143,999 tweets scheduled online classes, instead. (previous record was 33,388 tweets). We’re using Moodle for e-learning. These were the tests performed: Large number of simultaneous connection 1. Chat message needed to be tested to verify that student 2. Posting in forum would be able to use the website without 3. Uploading an assignment problems. Therefore, a simultaneous 4. Taking a quiz connection test was held. 5. Watching a video The test name was「工学部バルス」 There seemed to be some issues (Faculty of Engineering “Balse”). This with the chat, but no major issues name came from the “Balse Festival”, involving the whole system. which occured when “Castle in the From May 7, remote classes Sky”(Laputa) was re-aired on Japanese TV “工学部バルス” = (Faculty of Engineering have started safely using this system. in 2013. At the moment, when the spell “Balse”) I hope that the coronavirus will settle called “Balse” was said at the end of the There are 5 types of testing: down soon and the usual student life anime, a ridiculous amount of tweets 1. Chat. 2. Movie 3. Tele-conference will return. were sent from Japan. 4. File transfer 5. File download

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 82 of 145 25. BIRDS-4: NASA space apps, COVID-19 challenge

NASA Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge

Yuma Nozaki May 6, 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 83 of 145 Hackathon for COVID-19 Written By: Yuma Nozaki

NASA, ESA, and JAXA announced they will hold a Hackathon event to develop COVID-19 solutions on May 30-31.

App for smart-phone [source] COVID-19 [source]

Hackathon is one of app development challenge event. The merit of this event is that the new apps are developed in a short amount of time. It is very powerful and efficient way of IT development.

Hopefully, people will develop an app that is useful for us to solve the COVID-19 problems after this event. If you interested in this Logo of the project [source] event, click here!

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 84 of 145 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCiERL2m3Ss END OF BIRDS-4 REPORTS for this month Mr.Children 「終わりなき旅」 MUSIC VIDEO 1,263,849 views -- Apr 6, 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 85 of 145 26. Report from Paraguay CApacity BUilding in REsearch & Innovation For Space The “CABURE+I 4S” Project Newsletter

News from Paraguay 14 May 2020

Contributors: Students and members of The CABURE+I 4S Project Team

Edited by: Cristhian Coronel

FIUNA FPUNA UNG

Agencia Espacial del Paraguay – Paraguay Space Agency (AEP) BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 86 of 145 The “CABURE+I 4S” Project Newsletter News from Paraguay Working from home during these quarantine days

As of today, Paraguay has been in a quarantine status for two months due to the novel Coronavirus outbreak. Students and teachers from the CABURE’I 4S Team is still working on their respective areas. Some of them, like student Luis Miranda, is working on satellite communication systems.

On these days, sharing a simple class demands the use of new ways of communication, such as the online video conference. These technologies are also used for teaching and interacting with webinars. In this case, our colleague Luis Miranda was invited to share his knowledge about communication systems he has been studying during his graduation project.

Luis Miranda Kunert Is an Electronic Engineering Student and also Teaching Assistant in the subject of “Antennas and Propagation” at the Asuncion National University (UNA).

I am very happy to share my knowledge and experiences related to the GuaraniSat01 and the BIRDS-4 Project to students from different Schools and Universities of Paraguay.

______Cristhian Coronel, Electromechanical Engineering student from Universidad Nihon Gakko (UNG) May 2020 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 87 of 145 The “CABURE+I 4S” Project Newsletter News from Paraguay Holding a Webinar about my final degree Project and experiences on building a Ground Station for GuaraniSat01.

Last week, I was invited by the IEEE community from Paraguay to hold a webinar, and to present my final degree project. It is entitled “LOW-COST AND PORTABLE STUDENT GROUND STATION FOR TRACKING LEO SATELLITES TO PROMOTE CAPACITY BUILDING IN TELECOMMUNICATION AREA.” My advisors are PhD. Miki Saito, PhD. Diego Stalder, and MSc. Federico Gaona. This was the poster for the event. As I am not an IEEE member nor volunteer, having this chance was an honor for me.

After the webinar, people from the IEEE Communications Society invited me to be This was one of the slides during my part of a conference in presentation at the webinar. Ecuador.

______Luis Miranda Kunert, Electronic Engineering student from Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA) – Facultad de Ingeniería (FIUNA) May 2020 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 88 of 145 The “CABURE+I 4S” Project Newsletter News from Paraguay Holding a Webinar about my final degree Project and experiences on building a Ground Station for GuaraniSat01.

This work is about two designs, it included both, development and setup, for a low-cost ground station at the National University of Asunción. One design is only for signal reception purposes, in order to accomplish satellite beacons on Continuous Wave (CW) mode signals using accessible electronic devices such as PC, Software Defined Radio (SDR) and also contrasting different types of omnidirectional antennas.

Model 1 – “Only-Receiving” Ground Station

______Luis Miranda Kunert, Electronic Engineering student from Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA) – Facultad de Ingeniería (FIUNA) May 2020 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 89 of 145 The “CABURE+I 4S” Project Newsletter News from Paraguay

Holding a Webinar about my final degree Project and experiences on building a Ground Station for GuaraniSat01. The second design consists in a half full-duplex telecommunication system, capable of transmitting and receiving packet radio at Amateur X.25 (AX.25) protocol. This offers data rates of 1200 bps Audio Frequency Shift Keying (AFSK) for digital satellite communication, all by using a Handy Terminal (HT) Frequency Modulation (FM) transceiver, a low-cost Terminal Node Controller (TNC) and azimuth-elevation tracking system, both based on an Arduino hardware. The second one will be capable of automatic tracking the selected Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites by a circularized- polarized antenna. Tests are still undergoing and preliminary results will be presented.

This ground station will represent the National University of Asunción contribution to the GuaraniSat01 S&F Mission of the Paraguay Space Agency, and it will also promote studying of telecommunication through satellites in schools and universities.

END OF REPORT FROM PARAGUAY Model 2 – Half/Duplex “Tx/Rx” Ground Station ______Luis Miranda Kunert, Electronic Engineering student from Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA) – Facultad de Ingeniería (FIUNA) May 2020 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 90 of 145 27. Report from Zimbabwe

ZIMBABWE NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL SPACE AGENCY

By: • Timothy • Ramson • Victor Zimbabwe members of BIRDS-5 15 May 2020 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 91 of 145 OBJECTIVES OF ZINGSA

 TO PROMOTE PEACEFUL USE OF SPACE

 TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF AN ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE TO INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN SPACE TECHNOLOGY

 FOSTER RESEARCH IN GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE AND EARTH OBSERVATION, SPACE SCINCE, SPACE ENGINEERING, COMMUNICATIONS, NAVIGATION AND SPACE PHYSICS ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC, ENGINEERINING AND TECHNOLOGICALS COMPETENCES AND CAPABILITIES THROUGH HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT

 TO FOSTER INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN SPACE RELATED ACTIVITIES

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 92 of 145 ZINGSA ORGANISATION MINISTER

ZINGSA BOARD

DIRECTOR GENERAL

TECHNICAL DEPARTMENTS FINANCE, ADMIN AND HR

SPACE GEOSPATIAL SPACE SPACE SCIENCE ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS EARTH AND LAUNCH OBSERVATION

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 93 of 145 GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE AND EARTH OBSERVATION DEPARTMENT

DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING PRECISION AGRICULTURE.

IMPLEMENT THE NATIONAL EARTH OBSERVATION STRATEGY AS DEFINED BY THE ZINGSA.

DEVELOP AND PROMOTE NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION IN GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE AND EARTH OBSERVATION.

DEVELOP AND PROMOTE HUMAN AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY IN THE FIELD OF GEOSPATIAL AND EARTH OBSERVATION IN ZIMBABWE.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 94 of 145 SPACE OPERATIONS AND LAUNCH SERVICES DEPARTMENT

THE SPACE OPERATIONS AND LAUNCH SERVICES IS RESPOSIBLE FOR:

PREPARATION AND IMPLIMENTATION OF EARTH OBSERVATION MISSIONS.

SATELLITE COMMAND AND CONTROL.

MANAGING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SPACECRAFT, GROUND STATIONS AND CONTROL CENTRES.

LAUNCH SERVICES INCLUDING FACILITATING ACCESS TO SPACE FOR THE ZINGSA MISSIONS

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 95 of 145 SPACE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

KEY AREAS OF RESEARCH:

SPACE PHYSICS

ASTROPHYSICS

SPACE WEATHER

PLANETARY SCIENCE

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 96 of 145 SPACE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

 AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING.

 ASTRONAUTICAL ENGINEERING.

 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

 SYSTEMS ENGINEERING.

 ELECTRONICS, MECHATRONICS AND RADIO ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING.

 ROBOTICS.

 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV).

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 97 of 145 FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

 DEVELOPING BUSINESS PLANS, TIMELINES AND BUDGETS TO PERFORM FINANCIAL PROJECTS.

 MONITORING AND MANAGING EXPENDITURE WITHIN ALLOTED BUDGETS.

 ESURE THE PREPARATION AND MAINTANANCE OF ALL FINANCIAL RECORDS.

 IDENTIFY AND RESOLVE FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES.

 CONSISTS OF FINANCE AND AUDIT, ADMINISTRATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES SECTIONS.

END OF REPORT FROM ZIMBABWE BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 98 of 145 UiTMSAT COLUMN 28. Column #5 from Malaysia Column No. 5

Editor: FATIMAH ZAHARAH BINTI ALI PhD CANDIDATE, LABORATORY OF SPACE WEATHER AND SATELLITE SYSTEM FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UiTM Sentiasa Di Hatiku UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA (UiTM), SELANGOR, MALAYSIA “UiTM Always in My Heart” MALAYSIAN NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY

Malaysia used to have two separate entities for space Fig. 1: ARSM related activities before those two were merged into one located in Federal agency named MALAYSIAN SPACE AGENCY or formally Territory of Kuala called as MYSA. Before the merging took place in around Lumpur February 2019, all upstream and downstream activities were distinctively executed by ANGKASA and ARSM, respectively. ANGKASA is an abbreviation of ‘Agensi Angkasa Negara’ in Malay language which means National Space Agency while ARSM is Malaysian Remote Fig. 2: ANGKASA Sensing Agency. The merging was an initiative of located in Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology and Climate Banting, Selangor Change (MESTECC) in improving the effectiveness and BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 99 of 145 efficiency of performing space related works by using purpose, applying the national space policy, and the existing resources and facilities with optimality strengthen the local expertise by promoting and while reducing the cost of the executions. Besides, it coordinating the international and local space was an initiation for the implementation of the activities. country’s National Space Policy 2030.

For additional information, in March 2020 where the new government cabinet has been formed, MESTECC is now known as Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation or simply MOSTI.

MYSA has been given responsibilities in acquiring the capacity to perform the space technology and Fig. 3: Some of the Research and Development (R&D) programs applications for the country. Based on the functions developed by MYSA to support the consumer agencies particularly in stated publically in the website, MYSA is required to agriculture, land, disaster management, and security, using remote sensing system approaches. develop the comprehensive and coordinated From top left: Forest monitoring system, property evaluation and capability for space ventures, implement the monitoring system, precision fishery system, a system that update research for solution of related space science, precise location with active dengue outbreak (i-Dengue and SPWD), acquire and provide satellite data for analysis biodiversity information system, flood detection, paddy management system

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 100 of 145 Fig. 4: One of the facilities Fig. 5: One of the facilities provided by MYSA, anechoic provided by MYSA, TVT chamber chamber for antenna for satellite testing measurement

Fig. 6: One of the facilities provided by MYSA, Integrating sphere for camera calibration

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 101 of 145 Led by Mr Azlikamil Napiah, the Director General of MYSA, the entity has performed numerous space endeavours including the obligation in introducing the space science and technology to the youths of the country. One of the initiatives is by holding a miniature satellite contest through an event called Malaysia SiswaSAT Competition. Siswa is a Malay word which means students, specifically from higher learning institution and Sat is a short-form of a satellite.

Latest, SiswaSAT2020 competition is scheduled to be held from 18th May – 23rd Oct 2020. Opened to all university and school students in Malaysia, this competition carry an objective to expose the students with the process of developing a can-sized satellite. Technically, the event is created for education purpose to elevate the interest of the youths in space science, engineering and technology, by allowing them to actively experience the operation of space program. This is a good start to produce human capital that experts in respective space field as youths are the treasure of the country development.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 102 of 145 The evaluation of the competition started by reviewing the students’ presentation and submitted proposal on mission design that must contain all requirements stated in the guidelines, including their pilot power, creativity and new ideas. Students’ team with accepted proposal will proceed to the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) Fig. 7 (a): Developed cansat Fig. 7 (b): Developed cansat and later to Critical Design Review (CDR). On the day of cansat launching, all important criterias such as size, weight, operation systems are evaluated thoroughly. Figure 7(a) – (d) show the process of the launching and operation activities during the SiswaSAT2019 Acknowledgement: MYSA for allowing me to briefly write about the agency and its SiswaSAT Competition Fig. 7 (d): Ground operation Fig. 7 (c): Cansat was inserted inside drone’s box END OF COLUMN BY FATIMAH

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 103 of 145 29. Report from the Philippines

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 104 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 105 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 106 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 107 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 108 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 109 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 110 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 111 of 145 BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 112 of 145 30. GST (Gnd Station Report) report from Malaysia For more information on GST, see the article by Pooja Lepcha in "BIRDS Project Newsletter", Issue No. 51, pages 133-142. This issue (and all issues) can be downloaded from The following GST progress report was http://birds1.birds-project.com/newsletter.html submitted on 15 May 2020 by Mr. Nik Amirul Aiman Bin Rahmat. He is a student of electronics engineering at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam, Malaysia. He was selected by UiTM to be a part of the Malaysian GST effort, and he is really working hard at it. Very impressive. -- The Editor.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 113 of 145 Development of Ground Sensor Terminal for Nano-satellite Store-and-Forward Application

Author Name: Nik Amirul Aiman Bin Rahmat Nationality: Malaysian University: Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam, Malaysia Education: Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Electronics Engineering Field: Satellite Communication My role in this project My role is to design the specification of Ground Sensor Terminal required for this project. I am responsible for the hardware and software configurations which involve the duty of selecting the appropriate main mission, antenna design, and system flow.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 114 of 145 Development of Ground Sensor Terminal for Nano-satellite Store-and-Forward Application

Written By: Nik Amirul Aiman In this modern era, where IR 4.0 were set as a target for every countries and individuals to achieve, there are still people that is struggling to access even the basic internet connection to acquire data and knowledge. Based on the report by World Economic Forum on Figure 1: Factors of unreachable internet [1] 2016 [1], there are more than 4 billion people that still do not have access to the internet. BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 115 of 145 Development of Ground Sensor Terminal for Nano-satellite Store-and-Forward Application

Written By: Nik Amirul Aiman The number proves that data acquisition on even the basic information as simple as weather condition will still be hard to reach for some part of the world. This sparks the ambition in initiating this project to increase data reachability from a country to Figure 2: Rate of internet access [2] another where data accessibility is low.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 116 of 145 Development of Ground Sensor Terminal for Nano-satellite Store-and-Forward Application Written By: Nik Amirul Aiman This project uses Store and Forward application which means that information is sent to an intermediate station (satellite), where it is kept and sent at a later time to the final destination. This project were mainly Figure 3: Store and Forward application [3] focuses on developing a Ground Sensor The GST is equipped with Terminal (GST) that focuses on ambient data Long Range module (LoRa) mission such as the air quality, temperature which uses 433 MHz and humidity, and wind speed information. frequency and a DIY antenna.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 117 of 145 Development of Ground Sensor Terminal for Nano-satellite Store-and-Forward Application

Written By: Nik Amirul Aiman This project were commenced on early of March 2020 and at the time of the article is written, the progress of this project is 50% completed which may been delayed due to the COVID-19 outbreak throughout the world. As for now, this project have completed the data Figure 4: Main section of the ground sensor terminal transmission from the transmitter to the receiver.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 118 of 145 Development of Ground Sensor Terminal for Nano-satellite Store-and-Forward Application

Written By: Nik Amirul Aiman The data acquired from the sensor at the GST is saved to the SD card module, which then will be transmitted to the receiver after a set Receiver of time to mimics the behaviour of Transmitter Figure 5: Transmitter and Receiver part the nanosatellite’s availability for line References: [1] Luxton, E. (2016, May 11). 4 billion people still don't have internet access. Here's of sight communication. how to connect them. Retrieved May 5, 2020, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/4-billion-people-still-don-t-have-internet- access-here-s-how-to-connect-them/ END OF THIS GST PROGRESS REPORT [2] https://www.afp.com/ [3] https://www.keplercommunications.com/

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 119 of 145 31. Introducing Dr. J. A. Ofosu – new member of the staff of LaSEINE

Personal Introduction

For BIRDS Project Newsletter Kyushu Institute of Technology (九州工業大学)

Joseph Ampadu Ofosu May 16, 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 120 of 145 PART I Introduction

Joseph Ampadu Ofosu (Postdoc fellow, April 2020~)

 Joseph graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana, where he obtained BSc. Electrical/ Electronic Engineering degree in May 2007. On Drums

 He worked as an Electrical Engineer at the Kpong Generating Station, Ghana, during his National service till July 2008. Joseph was a Senior Instructor at the School of Engineering in Takoradi Polytechnic (now Takoradi Technical University), from September 2008 – March 2011. Here, he lectured courses such as Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Control Systems.

 Joseph received the Ministry of Education, Culture, On Piano Sports, Science and Technology (MONBUKAGAKUSHO, Japanese Government) scholarship, i.e. MEXT from April 2011 – March 2017. This was via the Japan Embassy, Ghana.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 121 of 145 PART II Research Background

 Joseph joined the University of Tokyo as a research student in April 2011, and enrolled as a graduate student in April 2012. He obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees (Department of Advanced Energy) in March 2014 and June 2018 respectively.

 His research theme was repetitively pulsed laser propulsion and laser supported detonation wave dynamics. The objective of this research is geared towards the applicability of laser-induced plasmas (LIPs) to propel vehicles into space without conventional chemical rockets. Thus, he basically studied the dynamics and energy conversion mechanisms in LIPs.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 122 of 145 PART III Career, Aspirations, Family life, Hobbies  Joseph worked with Imagineering, Inc., Kobe (now i- Lab., Inc.) from April 2018 – March 2020 as an R&D engineer. He worked on microwave-enhanced plasmas for spectroscopic applications such as radiative element determination and powder metal detections. He also applied these plasmas for E-coli disinfection and pesticides decompositions. Joseph also conducted plasma-assisted combustion studies with automobile engines.

 Joseph’s aspirations at LaSEINE and CeNT is to support the team so as to make the on-going ‘smallsat’ revolution an entrenched part of Kyutech and to advance the ‘New Space’ concept for the benefit of humanity and society.

 Joseph is married to Keiko and they have two boys: Yusei and Reima.

 Joseph enjoys contemporary gospel music. He loves dancing, singing and playing the piano or drums. He also enjoys watching and playing soccer. END OF THIS SECTION

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 123 of 145 32. BIRDS-3: ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control System) mission

BIRDS-3 ADCS Mission

by Dulani (BIRDS-3, Sri Lanka) 15 May 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 124 of 145 MTQ Performance During the Mission • According to the data we downloaded it shows MTQ performed some work. • Because the angular velocity of each axis changed after the mission • This is the data from UGUISU . • This shows what we could analyze using this data. In the beginning of the mission At the end of the mission

Sat X Sat Y Sat Z Sat X Sat Y Sat Z (Sensor Z) (Sensor X) (Sensor Y) (Sensor Z) (Sensor X) (Sensor Y) dps dps dps dps dps dps

1.3 16.5 -0.7 11.4 4.6 -2.3

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 125 of 145 Assumptions Made While Analyzing Data

• There are three factors ,

1. Residual Magnetic Field neglected. 2. Disturbance torque from the environment neglected. 3. Gyroscope sensor values were trusted.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 126 of 145 MTQ Performance During the Mission

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15 Sat X

10 Sat Y

Sat Z 5 Anular Velocity (deg/s) Velocity Anular 0 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160

-5 Time (minutes) Graph which shows the angular velocity difference in the beginning of the mission and the end of the mission. The graph is plotted in “dots” because we do not have continuous data. We have only beginning and the end packets.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 127 of 145 Kinetic Energy Difference

Kinetic energy of the satellite has decreased after 150 minutes execution. Conclusion According to the mission data downloaded and 0.26 J 0.21 J with the assumptions we made, It shows that the We downloaded ADCS mission data of 150 minutes execution. This kinetic energy is decreased at the analysis is done by first 50 packets and the last 50 packets . end of the mission.

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BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 128 of 145 33. BIRDS-3: Satellite operation report from Taiwan

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are supporting Kyutech for the satellite operations from Taiwan. This is the first time we are downloading image from the ground station of NCKU (National Cheng Kung University) in Taiwan. We are glad that our ground station is This article was working well with BIRDS-3 satellites submitted to this and expect that we can get the complete newsletter on 14 May 2020 by Mr. Hsu of image of Taiwan next time! Taiwan.

Ke-Yen Hsu, Master student of EE of NCKU, who is supporting operations from ground station in Taiwan now

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 129 of 145 Images downloaded from the NCKU ground station

Image from NepaliSat-1 Image from Raavana-1 Pacific Ocean

Sea of Japan

Because of the heavy cloud cover in the most of region, we can not identify exactly where the area is. However, according to the time when the image was taken and after the analysis of software “Orbitron”, we can make sure that both areas are nearby Japan.

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BIRDS-3: Outreach Program During COVID-19 Quarantine

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 131 of 145 Activities: During the State of Emergency in Japan Written By : Hari Ram Shrestha COVID-19 pandemic has globally affected the world. According to sources, many people have died and still many people are in the hospital for recovery. It has already damaged the economic sector of many countries in the You can watch in here: Click world. What should you do in a lockdown? # Watch movies, play games # Do some physical activity like yoga # Read (Book, Journal papers, News) # Attend the BIRDS (nanosatellite) outreach program through webinar and Facebook live # Cook something new food I Shared the BIRDS-3’s and Journey to space of Nepal’s first Satellite NepaliSat-1 experienced to youth of the nation # Play with children From Kaicho Group Facebook page through Facebook LIVE in April 30, 2020. BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 132 of 145 Outreach: BIRDS CubeSat Project Written By: Hari Ram Shrestha In my presentation at the online space workshop 2020, I basically presented about the BIRDS CubeSat EPS standard design and its verification method according to safety requirements of JEM Payload Accommodation Handbook for JAXA. I also shared my experienced about the work culture in Cho Lab and difference between the Nepal’s and Link: Abhas's Presentation Japan’s working style. Link: My Presentation

Abhas introduced the BIRDS Project, Kitsune Project. His focus was on imaging and camera design for low earth orbit and its verification system with results of BIRDS-3 Nanosatellite. Me (Hari) and Abhas would like to appreciate to AMSAT Nepal and Invitation and design of OSW 2020 ORION space Nepal to organized for Online Space Workshop 2020. BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 133 Page 133 of 145 Outreach:NepaliSat-1 and BIRDS CubeSat Project Written By: Hari Ram Shrestha

This paragraph introduces Abhas Maskey

I explained about the BIRDS Project in Kyushu Institute of snapshots of all photos are from the video. Technology and its available facilities for Space Program Video Link: Outreach Acknowledge: Multimedia team/NAST END OF THIS SECTION BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 134 of 145 35. BIRDS-3: Home cooking in Sri Lanka

13 May 2020

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 135 of 145 In our garden we have most of the vegetables. The first picture shows plucking an eggplant. The second picture shows the vegetables we could pluck in a day. The second picture includes ladies fingers, red yard long beans, eggplants and wild egg plant (we call it Thibbatu). Third picture also shows egg plant and kakiri (kakiri is similar to cucumber). So most of the times we cook fresh vegetables from the garden.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 136 of 145 Normally we always have green leaves in our meals. The first picture shows some green leaves (called Thampala) which is plucked from our garden. The ingredients added were shown in the second picture. Third picture shows an amazing curry of green leaves.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 137 of 145 My mother cooking one of my favorites. This is made of jack seeds and red yard long beans. These red yard long beans are from our garden. The next picture shows how the end product looks like.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 138 of 145 My sister made this evening snack.

This was a nice evening enjoying the snack my sister made while having a cup of tea.

This a Sri Lankan food called hoppers. We normally eat this  This a Sri Lankan traditional food called Pol with seeni sambol (which is in (Coconut) roti. This is made of coconut and the right of the picture, made of flour. We had this for a dinner. Normally Sri onion). Normally we have this Lankans have this for breakfast as well. for breakfast or dinner.

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 139 of 145 This is Sri Lankan pancake. There is a special filling inside. That is coconut jaggery filling.

This food is called Kottu. This is one of My mother preparing to While my sister was cooking. my favorites. make coconut roti. A Normally we picture of home made have this for coconut roti is shown is dinner. previous page.

This photo inserted by the editor 

https://www.ttrweekly.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Sri-Lanka.jpg BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 140 of 145 36. Momentus to launch IRIS-A satellite of Taiwan

Momentus, which is developing the Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle which uses water plasma thrusters, has signed an agreement with Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and Odysseus Space for the upcoming IRIS-A mission. In the agreement, Momentus’ Vigoride will take IRIS-A to its final orbit. Prof. Jyh-Ching Juang, National Cheng Kung Univ. (NCKU), is a member of the BIRDS Network IRIS-A will be the first of three satellites in Taiwan’s IRIS series, followed by IRIS-B and IRIS-C. IRIS-A will be equipped with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to achieve a Doppler shift estimation and improve the quality of downlink signal, increasing the efficiency of future IoT constellations of nanosatellites intended to monitor objects from space.

THE REST OF THIS TEXT IS HERE: https://www.spacetechasia.com/momentus-to-launch-taiwans-iris-a-satellite/

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 141 of 145 FROM: https://www.elonx.net/spacex-smallsat-rideshare-missions/ LOG as of 18 May 2020  May 15, 2020 – Momentus will carry Alba Cluster 3 on the first dedicated mission in December  May 14, 2020 – Umbra SAR-2001 will launch on the first dedicated mission; Momentus Vigoride will carry a Sen EarthTV satellite in the summer of 2020 and then four more in 2022  May 13, 2020 – SkySats 16–18 will launch on Starlink v1-8 and SkySats 19–21 this summer  May 12, 2020 – SpaceX’s first dedicated smallsat mission is planned for December 16, 2020 and will also launch the XR-1 satellite  May 7, 2020 – NASA’s PTD-1 satellite will launch on a SpaceX rideshare mission in December 2020  Apr 22, 2020 – Momentus Vigoride will carry 12 SpaceBee satellites in Dec 2020 and additional ones in 2021 and 2022  Apr 19, 2020 – SkySats 16–18 will probably launch on some later Starlink mission, not v1-6  Apr 14, 2020 – Exolaunch added to the December 2020 SSO launch; SAOCOM 1B delayed from March  Apr 2, 2020 – IRIS-A added to the Feb 2021 shared launch  Mar 20, 2020 – VZLUSAT-2 will launch in December instead of CScube  Mar 9, 2020 – Added several new Momentus Vigoride and two new payloads (CScube and RADCUBE)  Feb 8, 2020 – Added NuX-1 satellite; NanoRacks payloads will launch on the first dedicated mission

See this pdf for more info on IRIS https://unisec-global.org/pdf/uniglo7/day4/2_student_representatives/12_taiwan.pdf

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 142 of 145 37. Futaba student CubeSat project concludes fund-raising phase

This student satellite project was originally mentioned in Issue No. 46 of the BIRDS Project Newsletter on pages 78-80; please check it out. https://readyfor.jp/projects/kyutech-futaba/accomplish_report

BIRDS Project Newsletter – No. 52 Page 143 of 145 Futaba is an undergraduate student project at Kyutech 九州工業大学 衛星開発プロジェクト クラウドファンディング終了 Project concludes crowdfunding fund-raising (enough was raised)

ご支援いただいた皆様。この度は、九州工業大 学 衛星開発プロジェクトへのご支援ありがとうご ざいます。本プロジェクトは学部生が主体となって 開発・試験・運営を行っている、国内でも数少ない 学生により衛星開発を行っている団体です。今回 のご支援により、打ち上げ費用を確保することが できました。皆様のお気持ちに応えるためにも、 私たちの手で開発した超小型人工衛星「ふたば」 を必ず宇宙へ届けたいと思います。

打ち上げの日まで温かく見守っていただけると嬉 しいです。 Dr. Masui --衛星開発プロジェクト 代表 大谷 將壽

https://readyfor.jp/projects/kyutech-futaba/accomplish_report

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